Zack Exley

yours for the revolution

Since you asked, here’s a little of what I’ve been up to. Recently, I’ve been helping to found a new economic policy project called New Consensus, intended to equip a new generation of leaders with powerful ideas about how Americans and all of humanity can regain control over our means of making a living and economic life. Most recently, we’ve been involved in shaping the ideas around the Green New Deal.

YouTube Experiment

Last summer, inspired by the Alt Right’s complete takeover of YouTube–which more people watch now than television (read my paper)–I made some videos that attempted to engage an audience there on economic issues in a new way. Check out the videos here.

Other stuff I think about

I spend as much time as I can reading history and economics. I’m focused on how poor countries become rich, and how countries with declining living standards like the U.S. can turn things around. The first book I recommend to everyone is Cambridge Economist Ha-Joon Chang’s Bad Samaritans.

Contact

If you’re a reporter or looking for me for some other reason, just email me@zackexley.com.